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>Hello,
>
>This is a question regarding moving from VFP to C#. In our VFP application, we have a feature where users can change the language of the interfaces. We implemented it in such a way that we have a "translation" table (a free VFP table) with the English text and the translations of the text into the different languages.
>

>CREATE TABLE Transl (trSeek C(200), trEnglish M, trSpanish M, trDutch M)
>INDEX ON trSeek TAG trSeek
>
>*-- In the form's INIT() event we are translating each label and tooltiptext depending on the language setting
>
>THIS.lblEmployeeName.Caption = DoTranslate("Employee name")
>
>*-- And in DoTranslate we pick up the string and get the translation:
>
>PROCEDURE DoTranslate
>LPARAMETERS tcString
>LOCAL lcLanguage
>lcLanguage = "Spanish"
>IF SEEK(tcString,"Transl","trSeek")
>  lcRetVal = EVALUATE("Transl.tr" + lcLanguage)
>ELSE
>  lcRetVal = tcString
>ENDIF
>RETURN lcRetVal
>

>The translation table has about 3000 entries, is very fast and of course we distribute this table together with the VFP application, so that is no big deal in VFP.
>
>As we are moving some of our projects to C# we are wondering what approach we should use in a strict client server application. How is this kind of local data treated best?